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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Finely chopped clover hay moist
ened with water that has been slightly
salted, and sprink.ed with corn meal,
makes an excellent food for old stock
that cannot well masticate hay. 1t
should be fed in connection with mixed
ground grain also. with small allow
ance OF linseed meal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

A few Jumps of charcoal with box
of wood ashes placed in the hog pen
will prevent many ills arising from in
digestion in hogs. The charcoal should
be fresh. Old charcoal may be re-
newed by heating it in tie stove for a
few minutes.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Store beets, carrots, parsnips and
turnips in bins in the cellar, and pack
them in dry sand or earth and they
will keep well for winter use. This
method will enable the farmer to use
them at any time, which will not be
the case if they be stored in mounds
in the open air.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

A cheap and excellent mixture for
colds in poultry: Put tablespoon
full of tar in a quart bottle, and 20 drops
of carbolic acid and one teaspoonful of
crude petroleum. Add hot water,
shake we'll before using, and give tea
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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Hogs are excellent cleaners OF wheat
fields We have never observed any
i'll effects upon the animals If there is
plenty of clover and water as well as
some wheat in the field Sheep, on
the other hand, we should hardly care
to trust on the stubbles.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Give to the COWS none but the best
and purest food. With no other stock
is this so essential, for the reason that
it has been fully demonstrated by COM
petent authorities that the milk is a
very prolific source of transmitting
disease germs from impure food.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Wet, muddy feet and legs are fully
as injurious to the lower orders OF ami
NAL life as they are TO men. Instinct
teaches the animal in state OF nature
to avoid such unwholesome exposures,
but man has obliged them to grovel in
such miserable places and is therefore
responsible for the results.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07

Those who feed grain in addition to
grass, and feed it intelligently, 20 far
as we have ever heard them give an
opinion, believe that it pays. One
prominent feeder says that he finds
that IL requires only half as much
grain to fatten an animal on grass as
it docs TO fatten on it in winter or dry
food.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Nature is the Greatest Model.

Household ornamentation, in it's de- signs it's meanings and effects, follows closer on nature models than anything else know of, says l.. Rcnard in the Globe-Democrat. Tho most modern designs in arrasene and other ornamental fabrics are wavy lines. Nature seldom if ever made a straight line. Take for instance the human countenancc-it is a good model or guido; taking the nose ts center, the eyes should be the same size and equally apart, the forehead, the hair, and lower portions of the face all should be equally proportioned from that center; or, as the head is higher than the shoulders, so tho center of an ;rticle of furniture should be the tallest point, and the decorations arranged as near as possible to the above proportions in the matter of balance. Blending of colors, too, is important in the selection of decorations, and the nearer we go to nature in this also have we the most de- eirable and commendable selection. The lnore have investigated the more l am convinced that nature gave us models which can not be improved.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
An Impertinent Man.

Alex. Walker, clerk of the Capital Hotel in Little Rock, although hand some young man, has lost much of the hair that once occupied prominent po- sition on the top of his head. OAe even- ing recently we'll dressed stranger regis tered at the hotel. and, just as he had completed the work of spreading his double great-primer name on the book he glanced at Walker, stepped back and said:
 s'Great Cesar! Another baldheadcd man! It is my misfortune, it seems, to be thrown with this class of men. ought not to say it, perhaps, but don believe that headed men are honest"
 'sLook herc," said Walker, "your remarks are personal and insulting"
 'I did hope that I would never sec another bald-hcad, d man," the stranger continued, ''but here I am compelled to stop with onc."
 "Get out of this hou,,w Walker hotly exclaimed.
 Tho stranger stepped back and took off his hat, revealing the fact that he had not hair on his head.
 sMy dear friend" said Walker, ex- tending his hand, 'T have just received box of Havana cigars. Come around and enjoy yourself. "-- Arkansaw Tray cler
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Living on the Wagon Pora..

'
 When Emerson said Hitch your wagon to star, !" he meant, of course, that the wheels of the wagon should roll on earth, but that tho forces which pulled it along should be higher and nobler than mere worldliness. It was a good thought exccllently expressed, and when carried out it leads to success. There are some people, however, who in their efforts to hitch their wagon to stars, elevate themselves on the wagon poles until they reach convenient clouds, upon which they crawl and spend the rest of their lives midway between heaven and earth. A man who passes away his life in this suspended condi- tion is very curious character. He is just high enough up to look down with a cold, aristocratic condesccnsion on the rest of mankind, and he is just low enough down for mankind to see that he is only an ordinary member of the hu- man race. It is not very graceful position, and the people are generally disposed to criticise the man occupying it; but the suspended genius, propped up by his inordinate vanity, and blinded by the haziness of his surroundings. sees only himself, and imagines, like Aexan- der Selkirk, ho is monarch of all he sur veys. All the time the people below laugh at his antics, and the angels above, doubtless, weep.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
The Writing of Modern Hymns.

Know that mani It's William H., Doane, and he makes $20, 900 year writing hymns, or rather that's the roy
 alty he gets. He is engaged with Fay & Co.,, but in his leisure moments he hunts around and finds touching bit of poetry and he works it into hymn. Oh, it's paying business; beats any kind of writing I ever heard of, but it's not everybody that can catch on to that sort of style. It's harder than writing variety songs or even Ledger stories or detective yarns of blood and thunder romances. You sec, a man must have some of the divine aflatus mixed with a good deal of piety in order to bc suc- cess as hymnologist. He lives in a fine residence on Mount Auburn and some time ago he had falling out with John Notwithstanding about a boundary line. They got the matter in courts, when Mitchell said he'd fix him, so he erected long row of three story bricks right adjoining. He said he was going to put up hundred, but he only got as far as seventy. Cincinnati Inquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Prices in tho Old Days.

B. Gedncy, of White Plains, N. r., who was born in 1901, tells what farmers had to pay for farming utensils before the war of 1S12 and what they were paid for their produce. Hc said: "Wheat in 1S12 brought seventy five cents a bushel. Now it is ninety cents, lower than it has been since 1919. Beof brought $5 Q hundred; now it brings $1O. Pork brought 8 50 to $4; now it is worth $7. Butter was worth ten ccnta a pound, now it is worth fifteen cents. Cheese was worth six cents. Ordinary dress muslin used to cost three shillings and sixpence yard-eighty-seven cents now it costs ten cents. Calico cost fifty and seventyfive cents yard. Pins cost three shillings and sixpence paper -eighty-sevcn cents-now they cost six cents. For an Euglisb spade we used to send three bushels of wheat to market which brought $2. We can get bette, one now for fifty cents. A scythe cost $2, now better one can be had for fifty cents. Nails were twenty-five cents n pound, they cost now only eight cents. A cradling scythe used to cost $3 90. Wages were then fifty cents day. CT. $1O month for eight months. Nov we pay $15 and $2O month."
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
The Ruby Mines of Burmah.

Though nearly every work oa precious stones contains some men tion of the fla nous mines of Pegu in Blrmah, but very little has been actually known con- corning either tho location or the yield of the mines. Legends of their won derful riches were told by travellers in thS East as early as the sixteenth cen- t,Fy, but M. Tavernicr, who travelled in the csOrient about 1760, was the first to give any trustworthy information con- cerning the mines. He did not sec them, but gives his description from hearsay. He locates the mines in a mountain, twelve days journey from Siren the modern S;riam-and says the country is one of the poorest in the world. proluc- ing, nething but 1ubics and these in quahf4ies not exceeding 100, 900 crowns per anhdm in value. Father Guiseppi d. Amatgo, in 1880, actually visited the mines. In his account he places them seventy miles northeast of Mandalay. The '.gem gravel" he says, is reached by pits iron twenty to thirty feet in depth, but is not yet very ex- tensively worked because of the influx of water and the imperfect methods of mining used. From this account and that of M. Bredc- meyer, who in 1868 spent some time at other mines in the Sagy in hills, about sixteen miles from Mandalay, all that is actually known of tho Burmah ruby mines is derived. The gems lie in Q valley, about hundred miles square, surrounded by nine mountains. They arc found at varying depths some quite near the surface, others twenty feet down. The natives can not dig much deeper for them, because they do not know how to keep the water out of the mines. Sapphires, topazes and cmeralds are also found in the mines. The majority of the rubies found arc less than onc.fourth of carat in weight, and the larger ones arc ge1erally flawcd. Sapphircs, though relatively rare, arc generally of larger sig. The revenue from the mines constitutes royal monopoly, and amounted, thirty years ago, to from $65 900 to $75 900 per annum. Considering the difficulty of carrying on the mining work, the cost of securing the convenlencos of life in those rem ete districts, and, more than all, the unhcalthincss of the locality |, this return is not small. The British Government has leased the mines for a term of years to firm of wholesale jew gelers in London.--[ Inter- Ocean.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
A SQuidge.

''Among circus and theatrical people an admission ticket is called a 'squidge, said man at Forepaugh's circus last week to a Chicago Herald reporter. "Thc origin of this expression goes back many years. Along in the eos negro boy applied for admission at a circus in- one of tho southern towns. He had neither money nor tickets. The door tender stopped the lad at the entrance and told him that he could not get into tho tent unless he had money or it's equiv alent. The poor boy ran crying to his parents, who asked him why he was not at tho circus. With a sob and a face wet with tears tho lad blurted out that he couldn't get in until he got some money or 'squ,dgulum.' The man at tent door was very much amused when the boys tale was told to him, and ever after that a ticket has been known among the boys as a tquidge,' or 'squidgu- lum'0
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Laf,YettG'S Land.

There have been numerous inquiries of late as to whether Lafayette ac- cepted a township of land tcndercd him by tho United States government, and E he did accept it, where is tho land located. These inquiries have brought out a statement of one who was deputy surveyor in Florida, who says that after completing the survey in 1895 he re- turned to Tallahassee, where he met Col. Mckee, who had been sent there as the agent of Gen. Lafayette, then on a visit to the United States. Col. Mckee was commissioned to select the pr, ffered township and ho chose one adjoining and northwest from Tallahassee. It is
 resumed that the land ha. long since
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Ten Things n Baby Can Do.

It can beat any alarm clock ever in vented waking family up in tho morn ing.
 Give it fair show and it can smash moro dishes than the most industrious servant girl ill tho country.
 1t can fall down oftencr and with less provocation than the most expert tum- bier in the circus ring. t
 It can make more genuine fuss over a simple brass pin than its mother would over broken back.
 It can choke itself black in tho face with greater ease than the most accom- plished wretch that was ever executed.
 It can keep family in constant tur- moil from morning till night, and night till morning, without once varying it's tune. %G
 It can be relied upon to sleep peace fully all day when its father is down town and cry persistcntly at night when he is particularly sleepy.
 It may bo the naughtiest, dirtiest, ugliest, most fretful baby in all the world, but you can never make it's mother believe it, and you had better not try it.
 It can be charming and model in- fant when no one is around, but when visitors are present it can exhibit more bad temper than both of its parents to- gether.
 It can brighten up house better than all the furniture ever made; make sweeter music than the finest orchestra organized; fill larger place in its parents breast than they knew they had, and when it goes away it cau~cause a greater vacancy and leave greater blank than all the rest of the world put together -- Philadelphia News.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29

A correspondent says: ''There is some reason to believe, judging from the tone of Novoe Vremya and other Russian journals, that the tax on foreign resi- dents in Russia, which these journals so strongly advocate, may shortly be intro- drcsd by the government. A report is current that this tax will be fixed at 150 gold roubles per anuum, which makes about 255 roubles in the ordinary cur rcncy, or about $125. The effect of such an impost would of course be to drive out of the country the more skilled and industrious artisans ef foreign na- tioualities. Like the foreign passport tax, it will act as another check to Rus sia's foreign commerce"
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
her so strange, and Oscars eyes seemed

her so strange, and Oscars eyes seemed rivctcd upon her.
 "How did you know about the secret drawcr2" Reuben asked, abruptly.
 Secret drawer9' Sara repeated with a genuinely mystifcd look.
 "You were in some kind of trance, l think" Mrs. Hill said.
 'I thought you were in tit," said Addie.
 "And I thought you were going crazy" laughed Lottie, now that her fear was gone.
 Mrs. Hill explained about the deed. Sara listened, then said deliberately:
 'I never told you how came to leave my place. I thought you might think it was silly. It was all on account of dream I had" Nss5@
 The group were listening breathlessly.
 q saw this house with the long piazza md green blinds" she went on, ''thc big barn, with the great doors open, the bee hives, your faces, everything just as plain in my dream as saw them when l came that day. thought I was to come here to help somo one. Ididn't under stand what it meant, but I awoke with the feeling that must come, whether I wanted to or not. had seen the long, dusty road stretching ahead of me, and the house and barn on the hill. When I got therc was half frightened, but you all seemed as if you had been cx- pccting me. You made me feel at home." -.
 "strange," said Mrs. Hill, with sort of awe in her voice.
 "Aunt Samantha would explain it," said Lottic. '.She's been going to scances at the corner lately"
 From the day that the deed was found Oscar began to show open preference for Sara.
 It was not until she became his wife and they were living quietly in the little house on the Red Brook farm that she confessed to having seen his face in her dream the plainest of all, and that she had been told that she was to marry him.
 Reuben Hill is not quite such a hard headed skeptic as formerly. He has to admit that there may be stranger things in the universe than his philosophy has dreamed of. ..s@.
 We give the facts, as they came under cur notice, without pretending to account for them. .-[ New York Mer- curY V.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Love is a severe critic. Hate can par don more than love.
 Man cannot live exclusively by intcli- gence and self-lovc. ,s
 The word Impossible" is the mother tongue of little souls.
 Conscience is the voice of the soul; tho passions arc the voice of tho body.
 Chance opportunities make us known to others, and still more to ourselves.
 Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
 Actions, looks, worlds steps, form tho alphabet by which you may spell char actors.
 Modcsty is to worth what shadows are in a painting; she gives to it strength and relief.
 Grand temples are built of small stones, and great lives mado up of small events.
 You cannot dream yourself into Q character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
 The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures consists in promoting the pleasures of others.
 Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields fine crop of it. Pray for short memory as to all unkindness.
 Good qualities are tho substantial riches of tho mind, but it is good breed- ing that sets them off to advantage.
 Life is kindlcd only by life, and the highest form of living can only be called into existence in child by example.
 It is strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and loso power over a mans self. .. Love is like painter, who in drawing the portrait of friend having blcmish in ono eye, would picture only tho other side of his face. Sin is never at stay; if we do not retreat from it. wo shall advance in it ]; and the further on we go, the more we have to come back.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29

A steam yacht is an expensive luxury. Jay Gould seldom cruises on tho beauti- full Atlanta and more seldom has guests aboard, yet she costs him $6oOO a month. w. K. Vanderbilt has made ono cruise in his new Alva-to the Bcr- muda and has planned others and he calculates that it will cost him at least $1O, 900 month to maintain his steam pleasure craft. Wm. Astor keeps his steam yacht, the Nourmahal, tied up most of the time, and consequently he gets off moro cheaply-$2o0O to $30O0 a month. The most extensive and most famous for its good cheer of all New York steam yachts is James Gordon Bcnnetts Namouna. For twelve months in the year he keeps her in commission and hardly week passes when her cab in is not ,he scene of some lavish enter tainment. Entertainments, more or less lavish, cost money, Lut how much MT. Bennett spends in that way will re- main mystery. It is only known that tbe sum total of actual expenses on tho Namouna is SIS, 900 year.
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
HUMOROUS.

A flat failurc-A poor pancake.
 Food for rcfcction-The good dinner that you missed.
 Motto of tho massage doctor-I kncad thee every hour.
 The honey bee is regular merchant. It cells combs for living.
 A rich girl may Do homsly, but she will never know it by hcarsay.
 Anon is a very superior creature, but , she never could lay!a cornerstone. ~
 Mcxico's liabilities arc $151, 02O, 900; ! assets. earthquakes and revolutions. .s
 The fiowctl known as tho bachelors \ button mustsbe ono that does not stay on long. ttyH
 The oyster is like man in one re- \ spect. He is of little use until you get him out of his bed.
 In Frepch agricultural school: 'Tell \ me, pray you, howNto keep mutton fresh." ''By never killing the sheep. "/
 In Washington last week prisoner passed off a counterfeit dollar on po- lice magistrate in payment of the fine imposed. He knew that juatice was, blind. ~
 Some Florence ladies have given the \ Queen of Italy an $500 fan. It is very beautiful, but when Margarita wishes genuine comfort she uses two cent palm leaf.
 My dear," said her lover, sT am fired with an ambition to win your hand, May consult your father2" "Yes, she <, softly murmured. An hour later he was fired again. s-s. The other day town crier took in charge lost child and proceeded to hunt up its parents. On being asked by a lady what the matter was he replied: 'Herc's an orphan child, madam, and Pm trying to find it's parents"
 Jack (backward in his grammar)- 1. 'Papa, what part of speech is womani', Papa Qresh from verbal engagement with mamma, in which, of course, ho has been badly worsted)-''She isn't any part of speech at all, Jack; she h the whole of it."
 She pa,r,t in one hand, dog in the other)-"Yes, Edward, we've got every thing, believc-but where's the baby" He-'Why, Igave it to you" She 'T know; and gave it back to you" Hc-"Well, by jinks! if haven't gone and left it in the parlor carr'
 One of the rules of bicycle club reads: "A horse should never be passed on both sides at once." We suspect that when bicyclist attempts to pass on both sides of horse ''at once" he is expelled from the club. He would certainly be dismissed from temperance organiza-
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
All fin YNin.

All III Nulus As desolate bird that through darkness its lost way is winging AS hand that is helplessly raised when Deaths sickle is swinging, So is life! Ave- the life that lends passion and breath to my sing 'ng. As nightingales song that is full of sweot- ness unspokan, As spirit unbarring the gates of the skies for token, So is love! Aye, the love that shall fall when his pinion is broken. As the tramp of the legions when trump,ts their challenge are sending, As the shout of the storm-god when light- nings the black sky arc rending, So is power! Aye, the power that shall lie in the dust at its ending. So short is our life; yet with space for all things to forsake us, A bitter delusion, dream from which naught can awake us Till Deaths dogging footsteps at morn or at eve shall o'ertake us
 HI. Rider Haggard
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Habits of Seals.

The Boise Qdaho,) Democrat says: A man is now here just from Alaska, where he was engaged in sealing. He says seals before being killed are driven inland quite distance. Should one be killed on the beach the others would de. scrt the grounds and never return. They travel, when driven, at about the pace of a sheep. At birth young seal docs not know how to swim. and it's mother has to teach it, which she docs with almost human intelligence:
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
Teddy'S InterDretatiOn.

The golden text for a certain Sunday school was: "Aud the child grew and waxed strong in spirit. Luke ii., 40. The Christian Register says: Little Tcd's arm went up like flash when the superintendent asked: "Can any of these bright, smiling little boys or girls repeat the golden text for to-day2 An! how glad it makes my heart to see so many little hands go up! Teddy, my boy, you may repeat it; and speak good and loud that all may hear" And they all heard this: And the child grew and waxcd strong in spirit like 2:40."
Connecticut western news., 1887-06-29
A SymDathetic Cow.

A Ncwtonian was picking apples on Monday, when an old COW ran up to him and then away, acting very strangely. Knowing her to be an unusually intclli- gent COW, he suspected that something must be the matter and followed her. She led him to cow in another part of the orchard that was nearly chokcd to death with an apple. After he had re- licved her the old COW fairly cried for joy and licked the suffe~cr profusely, and when the latter was driven into the barnyard where she would be out of dan ger refused to leave hcr.-[New Orleans Picayune